Measuring Disease Burden in Myeloid Malignancies/Residual Disease

Measuring the burden of disease

Measuring the burden of disease.

 Introduction & Historical aspects: o Evolution of Summary Measure of Population health  Summary measure of Population health: o Why Important. o Different Measures: Sullivan‟s, Health Expectancy: HALE, QALE, DFLE o DALY  Global burden of Disease study.  Disability Adjusted Life Years: DALYs. o Measure, Calculations, Social and Cultural, Sensitivity analysis. o Why important o DALY and QALY...

Measuring the Burden of Disease in Korea

This paper provides an overview of the Korean Burden of Disease (KBoD) study, which was the first such study to assess the national burden of disease using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in an advanced Asian country. The KBoD study generally followed the approach utilized in the original Global Burden of Disease study (GBD), with the exception of the disease classification and epidemiol...

Advances in measuring influenza burden of disease

Influenza is a global public health threat, with seasonal and pandemic influenza resulting in substantial impact on health, the economy and society. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently estimated that every year, 290 000 to 650 000 deaths are associated with respiratory diseases from seasonal influenza.1 This estimate takes into account findings from recent influenza respiratory mor...

Measuring the global burden of disease.

Copyright © 2013 Massachusetts Medical Society. It is difficult to deliver effective and high-quality care to patients without knowing their diagnoses; likewise, for health systems to be effective, it is necessary to understand the key challenges in efforts to improve population health and how these challenges are changing. Before the early 1990s, there was no comprehensive and internally consi...